Jar and other receptacle



I c. w. KETTLER. JAR AND OTHER RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED EC.3I| 1918.

Patented June 24, 1919` WWWWM o l,

VI R W w R w m 4 T ww A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL WILLIAM KETTLER, O'F WARWOOD, WEST VTRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE` T0 ALFREDINGRAM ANI) HARRY INGRAM, BOTH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

JAR AND OTI-IER REGEPTACLE.

Spe'cfieaton of Letters Patent.

Patented June 24, 1919.

Application filed December 31, 1918. Serial No. 269,140.

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Be it known that I, CARL vVVILLiAlu: Kar- 'rnnin a citizen of the United States, and a resident of VVarwood, in the county of Ohio and State of VVest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in J ars and other Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.`

The invention pertains more partioularly to jars and other reoeptacles made of glass, earthenware or like material of a fragile nature, and it resides in a novel construction adapting the jar to receive a cover and suitable means whereby the cover may be seoured on the jar. Glass and earthenware jars have been variously construoted to receive bails and cover-looking means, but the fragilc nature of the material of the jar has rendered it diffioult to provide thereon suitable means for adequately reoeiving the bails and cover-looking features. In accordan'oe with my invention I form the jar in opposite sides of its upper or neck portion with in.- tegral lugs of special construction and apply thereto metallic earslaffording bearings for the lever element or bail of the cover looking features, and at the same time dispense with one of the wires connnonly found on ars to coperate with the looking Wire bails.

My invention presents several features of novel construction and advantage, and the same will be understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the acoompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the lupper portion of a glass jar equipped with the fea-` tures of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a Vertical section through the same, taken on the ,dotted line 2-2 of Fig. 1; j

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through a' portion of the same, taken on the dotted line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4tis a side elevation of aportion of the jar minus the cover, metallic ear and cover-looking features.

In the drawings, 10 designates a jar, 11 the contents thereof, 12 an applied cover, 13 a gasket to receive the downwardly extended edge portions of said cover, 14 a wire lockin g-bail engaging said cover for seourlng the same in position, and 15 a semi-circular le- 'ver-bail or' *Wire for binding the bail' 14 in .Erin position, across the top of the eever'12-- The jar 10 has around its upper portion a reduoed oiroumferential fiange 10 and eX- terior thereto a oiroumferential or annular horizontal shoulder 17 afi'ording a seat for the gasket 13. The jar 10 is also formed below said shoulder 17 with an annular groove 18, which need not necessarily extend entirely around the neck of the jar, since I only utilize portions of said groove for the purposes of my invention. The jar 10, except for the features entering into my invention, may be of any usual or suitable form and construction.

On opposite sides of the neck 19 of the jar and formed integrally therewith are vertical lugs 20 which eXtend downwardly from and are integral with an annular portion or shoulder 21 located directly below and forming the lower wall of the annular groove 18, and said lugs 20 are preferably of key-stone Outline and have a plain h'orizontal lower end 22 and upwardly diverging undercut sides 23, the upper end of the lugs 20 being fiush with andnot distinguishable from the lower surface of the annular shoulder 21. The lugs 20 have plain vertioal outer faces, as shown, althoug'h this feature is not entirely essential to my inven'tion.

Upon the lugs 20 I apply cars, as thejT may be termed, 24, of special construction, these ears being of sheet metal and having a lower fiange 25 to engage the lower end of the lugs 20, inwardly bent side fianges 26 to closely engage the underout side surfaces 23 of the` lugs 20, upwardly extending tongues 27 bent inwardly to enter the annular groove 18 of the jar and outwardly convexed oircular face portions 28 which are spaced from lthe lugs 20 and have openings 29 to receive the inwardly bent ends 301 of the looking wire bail 15, the edges of said openings 29 aifording bearings for said ends 30. The ears 24 conform generally to the Outline of the lugs 20, but at their tongue portions 27 eXtend above said lugs so as to enter into looking engagement with the annular groove 18.

The looking bail ll is of Wire, as usual, and at its upper middleportion is ada pted to a reoess 31' in the cover 12, and the sides of said bail 141 extend downwardly at opposite sides of the jar and said sides at their lower ends are bent inwardly, as at 82, and confined in eyes 33 formed inthe end portions of the looking wre or bail? 15. The locking 'Wire bail su'lastantially scmi-oiroular and extends around about one-half of the neck of the jar and at its end portions is formed with the eyes 33 and upwardly extending members 34, whose upper ends are bent inwardly, as at 30, to enter the openings 29 in the ears 24, as will be clearly understood from the drawing without minute explanation. 'When the looking` elements 14, 15 are in their operative position, shown in Fig. 1, the lower ends of the bail 14 are carried beyond the center line of the ends 30 of the bail 15 and said bail 14 then serves to lock the cover 12 in position. When it is desired to remove the cover 12, the middle portion of the bail 15 is turned to carry the lower side portions of the bail 14 to the opposite side of the center of the ends 30 of said bail 15, thereby releasing the strain on the bail 14 and permitting said bail to be turned from over the cover 12.

The lugs 20 by being integral with the jar 10 and having no part to be chipped off in the manipulation of the wire Operating elements of the cover, constitute one essential feature of my invention, and these lugs plus the metallio ears 24 of the Character described afford adequate means for receiving and for the manipulation of the looking bails 14, 15 whose strains, during manipulation, are partly borne by the ears 24 and partly by the lugs 20. The lugs 20 prevent any upward movement of the ears 24 during the manipulation of the looking features 14, 15 and the coperative action of the tongues 27 and'shoulder afforded by the groove 18 prevents any downward slipping of the ears 24 from the lugs 20, the spring action of the tongues 27 being supplemented by the close frictional engagement of the sides of the ears 24 with the sides of the lugs 20.

My invention permits me to produce a very durable glass jar of the character requiring the looking elements 14, 15, and to avoid a. third wire which is commonly employed in jars of this class oonnecting the ends of the lever member 15 of the looking features. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an adequate construction of glass or earthen jar or receptacle adapted to adequately receive and care for the looking wires whereby the cover may be secured on the jar. It will be readily seen that in acoordance with the construction presented by me, there is no st 'ain .on the lugs 20, except that applied against their lower broad ends and that the upper ends of said lugs do not project outwardly beyond adjacent surfaces of the jar and that therefore there is little 01' no danger of said lugs ever becoming injured by the action of the looking wires.

I do not limit my invention to all of the special details of form and construction shown, because I am aware that some of these details may be modified without departure from the spirit of my invention. For illustration, the groove 18 is shown as extending entirely around the neck of the jar and in that respect adds to the ornamental Character of the ar, but from a mechanical point of view the groove 18 afiords recesses above the lugs 20 to receive the tongues 27 of the ears 24, and therefore it is not essential that the groove 18 be eX- tended beyond the Vertical planes of the lugs 20.

`What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A jar or other reoeptacle, a cover therefor, a substantially semi-circular lookingbail for said cover and a substantially semicircular side lever-bail receiving the lower ends of said looking bail, said jar having integrally therewith Vertical lugs at opposite sides of the neck thereof, combined with metallic ears applied upon and engaging the sides and lower ends of said vlugs and having bearings to receive the inwardly bent ends of the said lever bail.

2. A jar or other reoeptacle, a cover therefor, a substantially semi-circular looking bail for said cover and a substantially semi-ciroular side lever bail reoeiving the lower ends of said looking bail, said jar having integrally therewith vertical lugs at opposite sides of the neck thereof and recesses above said lugs, combined with metallic ears applied upon and engaging the sides and lower ends of said lugs and having bearings to receive the inwardly bent ends of said level' bail and also upwardly extending inwardly bent tongues within said recesses.

3. A ar or other receptacle, a. cover therefor, a substantially semi-oircular looking bail for said cover and a substantially semicircular side lever bail receiving the lower ends of said looking` bail, said jar having integrally therewith Vertical lugs at opposite sides of the neck thereof and which lugs have plain lower ends and inwardly beveled sides, combined witlrmetallie ears applied upon and engaging said lower ends and sides of said lugs and having outwardly oonvexed bearings to receive the inwardly bent ends of said level' bail.

Signed at Vheeling in the county of Ohio and State of lVest Virginia this 10th day of December A. D. 1918.

CARL TVVILLIAM KETTLER.

Vitnesses GEO. C. BENEKE, B. S. HoNEoKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,` by adressing the Gommissoner of Eatents, Washington, D. 0. 

